Offwell Fete, Saturday 28th June We had a great day at Offwell Fete yesterday. The weather was perfect, warm, sunny at times but with a nice breeze. The turn out was good, the entertainment appreciated by the crowds and even though our pitch was not as well positioned as last year, we did really well all in all. Sold a…
Honiton Carers recently received a grant from The Barchester Charitable Foundation towards transport to our weekly meetings. As a result our trustees were invited for a photoshoot at their local Care Home, Cumberland Grange which we attended on Monday 9th June. We were very warmly welcomed by Care Home Manager Beth and Mica their Home Service Advisor. We had a…
We had a brilliant turnout for our AGM on 14th May 2025, held at Honiton Methodist Church our usual meeting place. This was our first year as a registered charity although we have been operating since 2014. All the committee members agreed to stand for a further 12 months and were voted back on unanimously by the group members. We…
Wednesday 9th April 2025 Home Instead with Holly Willis and Talia Honiton Carers had a great meeting on Wednesday 9th April at the Methodist Church, when Holly Willis Home Instead Digital Marketing and Communications Coordinator and Talia their Training Manager visited to give a reduced presentation on Safeguarding. Safeguarding is everyone’s business, but often we fear about speaking up if we do…
Wednesday 2nd April 2025 What a wonderful turnout at the Beehive for our Carers Cancer Awareness & Wellbeing Day, which was organised in conjunction with Wellmoor who had managed to obtain a Grant for this purpose. Ottery Help Scheme also put two similar events on. We had 2 cancer speakers one from the NHS speaking about Breast cancer and the…
Wednesday 12th March 2025 Great session at The Methodist Church today with Bob Selway who did a lovely Woodturning presentation. He made a beautiful wooden bowl of ash, which was later raffled and won by Carole Sexton, who was delighted. Bob interacted with the carers throughout the whole presentation explaining what he was doing and why, he even explained what…
We had a fabulous time at the Bowd Inn celebrating Christmas. We decided last year to postpone our annual lunch to February to have something to look forward to which was a great success so that is what we did again this year. Carole & Darren Proprietors of the Bowd Inn really did us proud. The food was wonderful with…
Monday 10th February 2024 Honiton Carers enjoyed the first session of the 6 weeks Creative dancing course arranged by Wellmoor specifically for our group and taking place at The Beehive. The course is funded by the Mobility scheme. The dancing instructor Willa is an absolute delight and a natural at expressive dancing. So very graceful and great fun. The session…
Lyme Regis Wednesday 29th January 2025 Our first ‘Walk & Chat’ of the year took us to Lyme Regis. We left Honiton at 12 noon and I think it is fair to say we were extremely lucky with the weather as there was a yellow weather warning for the day forecasting heavy rain and gales. We started off in dry…
Free travel training for disabled people in Devon Honiton Carers are the latest group of people to take part in travel training from the Devon-wide initiative, ‘Travelling with Confidence.’ The free training is designed to help people with disabilities to feel more confident when using public transport. The project is being delivered by Living Options Devon and Devon Communities Together,…